And
Joseph fell upon his fathers face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

2 And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians
to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are
fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned
for him threescore and ten days.

4 And when the days of his mourning were past,
Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace
in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my
grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou
bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and
I will come again.

6 And Pharaoh said, Go up, and bury thy father,
according as he made thee swear.

7 And Joseph went up to bury his father: and with
him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all
the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And all the house of Joseph, and his brethren,
and his fathers house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and
their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

9 And there went up with him both chariots and
horsemen: and it was a very great company.

10 And they came to the threshingfloor of Atad,
which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and
very sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

11 And when the inhabitants of the land, the
Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is
a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called
Abelmizraim, which is beyond Jordan.

12 And his sons did unto him according as he
commanded them:

13 For his sons carried him into the land of
Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which
Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron
the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his
brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had
buried his father.

15 And when Josephs brethren saw that their
father was dead, they said, Joseph will peradventure hate us, and will
certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him.

16 And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying,
Thy father did command before he died, saying,

17 So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray
thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto
thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of
the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

18 And his brethren also went and fell down before
his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy servants.

19 And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am
I in the place of God?

20But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but
God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to
save much people alive.

21 Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you,
and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his fathers
house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.

23 And Joseph saw Ephraims children of the third
generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were
brought up upon Josephs knees.

24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and
God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land
which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of
Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones
from hence.

26 So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten
years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.